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“Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction.”

Has Beens Reason Age Earth Century Pride Balance Ego Mass Destruction Reasonable Collectives Delicate Twentieth Century Missiles Mass Destruction Neurosis Age Of Reason

Author:Marion Woodman

“What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Decision Creative Achieve Ego Collectives Collaboration Always Trying

Author:Dave Genn

“...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego.”

“By far the greater part of violence that humans inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens service of the collective ego. One can go so far as to say that on this planet "normal" equals insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.”

Humans Lying Emotion Greater Violence Planets Citizens Ego Normal Roots Criminals Insane Insanity Collectives Respectable Identification Deranged Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“God is the collective ego of the world”

World Ego Collectives

Author:Rajneesh

“Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.”

Want Individual Huge Basketball Ego Collectives Unbelievable

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.”

“The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.”

Life Mind Dies Choices Technology Ego Species Disaster Evolve Insanity Collectives Science And Technology

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.”

World Trying Ego Unconscious Collectives Collective Unconscious

Author:Bill Hicks

“The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'”

Should Eye Faces Forget United Consciousness Vision Heard Fields Painting Ego Infinite Oneness Collectives Never Forget Expansion Mystical Trance Dissolving Many Faces

Author:Alex Grey

“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”

Way Humans Ego Reactions Collectives Dissolving

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.”

Ifs Way Mind Humans Self Beautiful Language Causes Imagination Ego Empowering Collectives Dominant Fulfilling Psychedelic Human Imagination Enzymes

Book:Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

Source: Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.”

Attention Careers Focus Team Members Ego Focused Budgets Aspiration Department Collectives Team Member Collective Good

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche”

Humans Ego Gains Absolutes Collectives Feminine Principal Supremacy Suppression Human Psyche

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose